We celebrate the end of
our 2nd program with an openhouse exhibition. This time
our theme is Man Vs. Machine. Members have spent 15
weeks learning various interMEDIA techniques and creating
work inspired by this theme.

Our new program connects
our artistic practice to our community. Taking an interMEDIA
approach to looking at our city, students will create
works which try to capture Chicago's vibrant urban landscape.

This program is also a collaboration with a class at
Saint Xavier University. The program ends with a joint
CAD/SXU exhibition.

Taken from the name of
Nat and Mikes company, Zero One Projects LLC, this program
is designed for people who are interested in applying
their art as a profession or business. Participants
will explore such topics as client work, project management,
product development, administration, marketing and other
facets of business in the form of independent projects.

Interested in starting your own company? Get a taste
with firsthand experience. Already have a company? Use
this to experiment, innovate, and improve.

One of the main structural
elements of our society is a hierarchy of responsibility
and leadership. Often, this system is taken for granted,
allowing people to believe that they have no personal
power to initiate some sort of change in society.

This past week CAD students explored
the digital coloring of black and white imagery. Making
it POP was alsoa project in process-based, collaborative
artmaking as every student created art based on a set
of agreed upon rules.

CAD instructor Mike Nourse's video,
Terror,
Iraq, Weapons was screened this past 9-11 weekend
in New York City at ResFest. ResFest
is a world-wide touring digital film festival which
showcases some of the most cutting-edge work in digital
film and motion graphics. Mike's piece was part of the
program "Bushwacked" which featured a number
of political works created in the last 3 years.

interMEDIA...ArtSpeak
for Meby Mike NourseI’m pretty sure my earliest memory of Intermedia
was in grade 7. Like many other budding young teens, I was
interested in art but questioned whether or not it was a smart
career move...

DISCOVER INTERMEDIA ARTThe Chicago Art Department is an interMEDIA schoolhouse,
set up to facilitate our interMEDIA approach to artmaking.
If you are wondering what interMEDIA is, please read our MISSION
and visit the "What
Is interMEDIA" section currently under development.